IWPR Publication

The Economic Status of Women in Indiana: Highlights
by Amy Caiazza, April Shaw
(November 2007)

Indiana reflects both the advances and limited progress achieved by women in the United States. Women in
Indiana and the United States as a whole are seeing important changes in their lives and in their access to political,
economic, and social rights. They by no means enjoy equality with men, however, and they still lack many of the
legal guarantees that would allow them to achieve that equality. Women in Indiana and the nation would benefit from
stronger enforcement of equal opportunity laws, adequate and affordable child care, improved access to health care,
and other policies that would bolster their economic progress.